# Watcher permissions

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-permissions/152261>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 12, 2018, 2:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-permissions/152261 "2018-10-12T14:48:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![luksi1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e68b1a/32.png) [@luksi1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/luksi1)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2018, 2:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-permissions/152261/1 "2018-10-12T14:48:23Z")

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I would think this role would access to everything. Unfortunately though, I'm receiving an access denied when attempting to view our watchers. Is there something I'm missing?

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/f/9/f9b313333a28bf10c81860b72bb0a0cbf5562e37.png)

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**Author:** ![luksi1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e68b1a/32.png) [@luksi1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/luksi1)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2018, 3:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-permissions/152261/2 "2018-10-12T15:01:17Z")

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Ok. Apparently, users also need to have "watcher\_admin" and "monitoring\_user" roles, even if they have all cluster and kibana privileges.

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**Author:** ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2018, 11:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-permissions/152261/3 "2018-10-15T11:02:04Z")

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Indeed the `watcher_admin`/`watcher_user` role is needed. Glad you got it sorted out.

Just for reference: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elastic-stack-overview/6.4/watcher-getting-started.html#required-security-privileges](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elastic-stack-overview/6.4/watcher-getting-started.html#required-security-privileges)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2018, 11:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watcher-permissions/152261/4 "2018-11-12T11:02:09Z")

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